Snow, Rain, Repeat...

 A couple of weeks back we got almost a foot of snow. That was ok, cause we hadn't had too much up til then and we needed it. I was able to break out the sled trail and got the dogs out after a short cold spell ended. But then we got another dump, close to a foot of snow followed by a couple inches of rain.

This is what you'd look like if you chose to plow snow for maybe four hours during a rainstorm. Next time I'll wait until it stops. Now they're forecasting another storm event starting today with rain and snow. followed by sub-zero cold. I can't wait! Read about it here...

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/weather/2021/12/27/interior-alaska-storm-wreaks-havoc-as-highways-temporarily-close-and-thousands-remain-without-power/

Cold!...

Been down below zero F since last weekend, the highs, when we get one, have been in the mid twenties below and the lows near forty below. But the end appears to be in sight as the weather bureau is predicting near zero tomorrow.

Here's a pretty sad looking fellow taking a selfie when the temps, according to the frog, are thirty something below. That's cold enough to mostly keep me inside, except for feeding dogs and getting firewood. It's a good thing there's a lot cut and split, cause we're going trough it real fast at these temps. Been rebuilding an old pair of snowshoes I picked up last summer, so will post some pics when they get further along.

So here's the snowshoes, the one on the left just about finished, the other in the original condition. When I went to look at them, the seller was very apologetic, said  he hadn't realized that the green plastic had some severe cracking, so gave them to me for free. I thought it'd be easy to replace the bad part with some UHMW sled plastic, but didn't realize how hard it'd be to grind off the rivet heads that held it on. But now one's almost  done,  they'll both get new bindings, then just have to do the other. Should have'em ready by spring time!

Little Earl ...

Well Little Earl has grown into the dog yard in more ways than one. He plays with all the dogs, tho most of them would rather not, and he gets picked on by Mac, which he seems to enjoy. So any anxiety over moving into a new place is likely gone. His feet have gotten a lot bigger, so hopefully the rest of his body will follow along. As far as running him, he's doing just great in the team.

Had to make Earl a new harness, since I'd given away all the smaller ones except for one too small puppy harness. Fortunately there was enough scrap webbing and polar fleece to cobble together a harness that'd fit him. Even used  pieces of his old orange collar, which we had to cut off him cause it was too small, for part of the x-back. Pretty snazzy!

And it warmed up to twenty above F today after a couple weeks below zero, so that was pretty good too.